Author: Annie Emma Challice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Heroes, Philosophers, and Courtiers of the Time of Louis XVI.
Author: Annie Emma Challice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Heroes, philosophers and courtiers of the time of Louis xvi, by the author of 'The secret history of the court of France under Louis xv'.
Author: Annie Emma Challice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Heroes, Philosophers, and Courtiers of the time of Louis XVI. By the author of “the Secret History of the Court of France under Louis XV.” [Mrs. A. E. Challice.]
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Heroes, Philosophers, and Courtiers of the Time of Louis XVI.
Author: Annie Emma Challice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Heroes, Philosophers, and Courtiers of the Time of Louis XVI.
Author: Annie Emma Challice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Madame Tussaud
Author: Geri Walton
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526734095
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A “meticulously researched and deftly written biography” of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review). Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon—people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years. This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud’s early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person’s head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former houseguest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. This is the story not only of a unique artist, but of how one of history’s bloodiest events influenced her life and work.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526734095
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A “meticulously researched and deftly written biography” of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review). Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon—people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years. This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud’s early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person’s head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former houseguest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. This is the story not only of a unique artist, but of how one of history’s bloodiest events influenced her life and work.
American Book Prices Current
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1778
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description